Whilst a number of male writers have traced the desert as their fictional literary dominion in recent years, a number of women artists based in Alice Springs – of whom Neridah Stockley is a contemporary exemplar – are painting it as they see and experience it.
Originally from Sydney, Stockley relocated to Alice Springs and now calls it home – acting as ‘base camp’ for extensive painting expeditions of the last decade. Her commitment to painting landscape en plein air is predominantly on a small scale, challenging the overriding assumption that a ‘big country’ requires ‘big pictures’.
Charles Darwin University Art Gallery
Until 20 February, 2015
Darwin
Hills at Ross River (detail), 2011, acrylic and gouache on Canson paper, 32.3 x 33.2cm (image); 33.9 x 34cm (paper)
Courtesy the CDU Art Collection
